Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Chinese word for tea.-Cha sze, a tea-expert; a tea-taster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The drink made by infusing the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant in hot water, often served with milk or cream and sugar added.

Etymologies

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From Hindustani चा / چا (ćā), from Persian چا, from Sinitic .

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  • Tea.

    February 6, 2008

  • One third of an excuse to shake your booty, foo.

    June 26, 2008

  • ...cha, cha! Wordie Conga Line!

    June 26, 2008

  • No way. A cha cha cha ruined my day yesterday.

    Why does this annoying -ay sound end off everything I say?

    June 26, 2008

  • Eh?

    June 26, 2008

  • So they say.

    June 26, 2008

  • Ugh, you'll pay.

    June 26, 2008

  • No way!

    June 26, 2008

  • Way.

    June 26, 2008

  • Enough already, okay?

    June 26, 2008

  • Whatever you say.

    June 26, 2008

  • Ixnay.

    June 27, 2008

  • Manx, "not."

    April 23, 2009

  • also short for cha-cha, which bikini waxing blogger formerly fun calls vaginas. I find it hilarious.

    May 3, 2010